(January 12, 2015 at 10:19 am)Drich Wrote: their is a big gapping hole in this line of reasoning. The assumption being because we only have a written record of 2nd century involvement with the gospels that they must have orginated in the second century. This would be a valid conclusion IF our records of the first and second century church were any where near complete. They are not. It would be like someone 100 years from now going through all my posts, and proclaim that I never owned a 1967 Mustang or a 64 ranchero because in all my posting I never mention the mustang or ranchero.
Again this would be a logical conclusion if my threads here were a complete chronical of my life. However my work here does not center around my life, (even though I have shared personal experiences) and the work here does not include my two cars, which doesn't mean I never owned them. Like wise to point to a hole in a incomplete historical record is in this case an Arguement from silence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence
Which produces fallacious reasoning/Faulty conclusions.
Actually - since there was never a person named "Jesus Christ" who lived in the time between 6 bce and 35 ce - it really makes no difference when they made up the stories.
If we actually had ALL of the stories that the Catholic church had when it decided what mumbo jumbo it would include in the bible - how they determined what was correct - and what was not - simply was decided by people who were not eye witnesses and could not have been. So - the stories of the bible were chosen by a vote of human who had no idea - and simply wanted to define their religious beliefs.
Just as much of the old testament is proven to not be true - and the fact that there is NO support for large portions of the rest - shows that the bible itself - of which the Old Testament is part of - is certainly not the words of an all knowing god. It is simply just another set of fairy tales. Remembering that the majority of people on earth who still believe in such nonsense - do not accept the christ - simply points to that as well. People will believe whatever they are taught to believe - as religious education wanes and disappears in the world - so will the belief in spooks, demons - and all that nonsense
